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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Shopping team, you will lead engineering efforts that scale Roblox Avatars and build the systems that deliver engaging experiences for users as they discover and purchase items for their avatar on the Roblox Marketplace.

Our team is responsible for all the systems within the Marketplace on the Roblox Platform, builds the architecture to increase scale, avatar quality, and functionality and creates new services that make developers more efficient and productive.

With millions of daily active users (and growing), we are looking for an experienced engineer to join us that's passionate about designing and creating world-class user experiences.

You will:

Partner with a cross-functional team including product, design, and data science to develop and deliver user-facing features to millions of daily active users on the Roblox platform
Make changes to the Roblox Game Engine (C++; prior experience in game engines such as Unreal or Unity is a major plus!)
Develop in-game APIs and Interfaces used by millions of users in a reliable, secure manner.
Build new product features to enable users to shop for avatar items on the Roblox Marketplace
Run experiments to test product hypotheses and make data driven decisions
Participate in bottoms-up product ideation and roadmap creation
Support our Marketplace in production, sharing the on-call rotation with your team colleagues

You Have:

4+ years of professional experience working on consumer-facing applications.
3+ years of experience with modern UI frameworks like React or React Native
Some professional experience with C++ in a game engine context (bonus points if you have developed for Unreal Engine or Unity)
Strong product and design intuition.Broken down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages with a history of successful execution & delivery
First-hand tech lead experience and have helped team members reach their technical potential
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a production environment.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range$238,520—$289,460 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.